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“They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 224673ae2c8f5e97c07eb59c5d90952f07bb3a7ecd2c9aba1f396fd585e8ea16
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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